Po­lice are still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing death of 74-year-old Frank Alan Sandy, who was killed by an off-du­ty of­fi­cer in Mt St George, To­ba­go.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent El­lie con­firmed on Mon­day that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­mains on­go­ing. The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) is al­so aware of the case and has in­vit­ed the fam­i­ly to file a for­mal com­plaint.

An au­top­sy con­firmed that Sandy died from a sin­gle gun­shot wound to the up­per left side of his chest.

He was buried yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al at­tend­ed by rel­a­tives and friends.

Sandy was shot around 5 a.m. on May 30 out­side the home of PC Roach, who lives a short dis­tance away. The of­fi­cer re­port­ed hear­ing some­one tug­ging at his front door. He said the man at­tempt­ed to en­ter the house and then charged at him with an ob­ject. The of­fi­cer, who is li­censed to car­ry a firearm, said he feared for his life and fired.

Sandy was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he lat­er died.

He lived near­by and was known in the area. His fam­i­ly said he was men­tal­ly un­well and of­ten con­fused, al­though he had not been of­fi­cial­ly di­ag­nosed. They be­lieve he may have mis­tak­en the of­fi­cer’s house for his own.

The fam­i­ly called for a full in­ves­ti­ga­tion and in­tends to take the mat­ter to the PCA. They said they were not prop­er­ly in­formed af­ter the shoot­ing and strug­gled to con­firm his iden­ti­ty at the hos­pi­tal.

They al­so ques­tioned why lethal force was used on an el­der­ly man they de­scribed as weak, con­fused, and not a threat.

Days af­ter the shoot­ing, some­one fire­bombed the of­fi­cer’s home. How­ev­er, the blaze was ex­tin­guished, and on­ly a cor­ner of the porch was dam­aged.